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renamed to Clone Angst


* CloningBlues: Kaitlin's evil clone actually does a HeelFaceTurn and is summoned to help out now and again.
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Whoever keeps believing that JB used the Technobazooka on Fanbot..... It never happened in either VRT or Spielban. Unless you have a script for that episode (which seems unlikely), it did not happen so stop trying to alter the page to reflect your own reality.


** Some monsters fit this trope, but an egregious example was the next-to-last monster they ever fought, Fanbot, a Creator/JerryLewis {{Expy}} who was clumsy on the battlefield and seemed to trip over his own feet. However, once General Ivar ordered him to use his fan, he easily sucked up Conatron (a bot constructed by Knighttime out of the fallen remains of other attack bots), and proceeded to suck up all of Knighttime's power, leaving them defenseless; once he showed up to fight JB and Kaitlyn, he nearly sucked them up too -- he [[NoSell laughed off]] the VR Double Team attack, and JB nearly got shredded, only getting the upper hand by Laser Lance Commanding Fanbot at ''point-blank range'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using the kinetic energy from Fanbot's attack to enhance its power]]. Still, the impalement was laughed off and mocked, but the laser lance slashing sure wasn't. [[spoiler: Originally in both Spielban and VR Troopers there was a scene of the laser lance failing to the job, Fanbot preparing to suck up JB once and for all, then JB using the Technobazooka on Fanbot to finish him off and then repowering the laser lance to mop up the Skugs that rushed over to Fanbot's aid. In both cases, the scenes were cut before they could air for various reasons. One being to make room for another commercial, another being that such a climactic battle against a mere MonsterOfTheWeek would upstage the more important battles, in the former case Queen Pandora's defeat, and in the latter case Ryan and Grimlord's EnemyMine team-up, and finally, he'd already used the Technobazooka on Grimlord's air force, so it would have made no sense for him to not just use the Technobazooka on Fanbot and Ivar the first time around. This is why having the arc impulse/laser lance finish Fanbot made more sense.]]

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** Some monsters fit this trope, but an egregious example was the next-to-last monster they ever fought, Fanbot, a Creator/JerryLewis {{Expy}} who was clumsy on the battlefield and seemed to trip over his own feet. However, once General Ivar ordered him to use his fan, he easily sucked up Conatron (a bot constructed by Knighttime out of the fallen remains of other attack bots), and proceeded to suck up all of Knighttime's power, leaving them defenseless; once he showed up to fight JB and Kaitlyn, he nearly sucked them up too -- he [[NoSell laughed off]] the VR Double Team attack, and JB nearly got shredded, only getting the upper hand by Laser Lance Commanding Fanbot at ''point-blank range'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using the kinetic energy from Fanbot's attack to enhance its power]]. Still, the impalement was laughed off and mocked, but the laser lance slashing sure wasn't. [[spoiler: Originally in both Spielban and VR Troopers there was a scene of the laser lance failing to the job, Fanbot preparing to suck up JB once and for all, then JB using the Technobazooka on Fanbot to finish him off and then repowering the laser lance to mop up the Skugs that rushed over to Fanbot's aid. In both cases, the scenes were cut before they could air for various reasons. One being to make room for another commercial, another being that such a climactic battle against a mere MonsterOfTheWeek would upstage the more important battles, in the former case Queen Pandora's defeat, and in the latter case Ryan and Grimlord's EnemyMine team-up, and finally, he'd already used the Technobazooka on Grimlord's air force, so it would have made no sense for him to not just use the Technobazooka on Fanbot and Ivar the first time around. This is why having the arc impulse/laser lance finish Fanbot made more sense.]]
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** Season 2 saw the replacement of the Virtual Dungeon with the Virtual Dark Fortress, and that included a trio of new commanders: Oraclon, a [[TheSmartGuy living supercomputer/repository of virtual knowledge]] capable of creating monsters and Ultra Skugs; Despera, the DarkChick and advisor/strategist; and Doom Master, TheBrute and field commander of the Vixens.

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** Season 2 saw the replacement of the Virtual Dungeon with the Virtual Dark Fortress, and that included a trio of new commanders: Oraclon, a [[TheSmartGuy living supercomputer/repository of virtual knowledge]] capable of creating monsters and Ultra Skugs; Despera, the DarkChick and advisor/strategist; and Doom Master, TheBrute and field commander of the Vixens.

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** The Troopers fight Skugs, and then go to deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek

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** The Troopers fight Skugs, and then go to the lab, often attacked by Air Stryker and Fighterbot on the way.
** At the lab, Professor Hart briefs them on Grimlord's plan, they transform and
deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek


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** JB and Kaitlin use the VR Double Team on the monster, which stuns and/or weakens it.

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** Some monsters fit this trope, but an egregious example was the next-to-last monster they ever fought, Fanbot, a Creator/JerryLewis {{Expy}} who was clumsy on the battlefield and seemed to trip over his own feet. However, once General Ivar ordered him to use his fan, he easily sucked up Conatron (a bot constructed by Knighttime out of the fallen remains of other attack bots), and proceeded to suck up all of Knighttime's power, leaving them defenseless; once he showed up to fight JB and Kaitlyn, he nearly sucked them up too -- he [[NoSell laughed off]] the VR Double Team attack, and JB nearly got shredded, only getting the upper hand by Laser Lance Commanding Fanbot at ''point-blank range''.

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** Some monsters fit this trope, but an egregious example was the next-to-last monster they ever fought, Fanbot, a Creator/JerryLewis {{Expy}} who was clumsy on the battlefield and seemed to trip over his own feet. However, once General Ivar ordered him to use his fan, he easily sucked up Conatron (a bot constructed by Knighttime out of the fallen remains of other attack bots), and proceeded to suck up all of Knighttime's power, leaving them defenseless; once he showed up to fight JB and Kaitlyn, he nearly sucked them up too -- he [[NoSell laughed off]] the VR Double Team attack, and JB nearly got shredded, only getting the upper hand by Laser Lance Commanding Fanbot at ''point-blank range''.range'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using the kinetic energy from Fanbot's attack to enhance its power]]. Still, the impalement was laughed off and mocked, but the laser lance slashing sure wasn't. [[spoiler: Originally in both Spielban and VR Troopers there was a scene of the laser lance failing to the job, Fanbot preparing to suck up JB once and for all, then JB using the Technobazooka on Fanbot to finish him off and then repowering the laser lance to mop up the Skugs that rushed over to Fanbot's aid. In both cases, the scenes were cut before they could air for various reasons. One being to make room for another commercial, another being that such a climactic battle against a mere MonsterOfTheWeek would upstage the more important battles, in the former case Queen Pandora's defeat, and in the latter case Ryan and Grimlord's EnemyMine team-up, and finally, he'd already used the Technobazooka on Grimlord's air force, so it would have made no sense for him to not just use the Technobazooka on Fanbot and Ivar the first time around. This is why having the arc impulse/laser lance finish Fanbot made more sense.]]



** Some of the story arcs the show had were quite dark, especially when we discover who the villain Dark Heart really is. Then again, ''Metalder'', ''Spielban'' and ''Shaider'' were no comedic romps either.

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** Some of the story arcs the show had were quite dark, especially when we discover who the villain Dark Heart really is.is and the Quest For Power Series where Ryan's dad is basically used as a human battery. Then again, ''Metalder'', ''Spielban'' and ''Shaider'' were no comedic romps either.



* FailedASpotCheck: The VR Vizors actually revealed Grimlord's identity as Karl Ziktor when the Skug Strickland was sent to the past. Either they thought the machine made a mistake, that Ziktor didn't know Strickland was one of Grimlord's Skugs, or somehow missed that entirely.



** JB has his Laser Lance, usually done by impaling the monster to stun it and then deliver powerful slashes to finish them off. The VR Technobazooka ''could'' be used as this, but was normally used for anti-aircraft purposes.

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** JB has his Laser Lance, usually done by impaling the monster to stun it (in which case it usually surrenders, with a few preparing to continue battle after finding their bearings) and then deliver powerful slashes to finish them off. The VR Technobazooka ''could'' be used as this, but was normally used for anti-aircraft purposes.



* LetsSplitUpGang: Since Ryan's Trooper form and Kaitlyn/JB's Trooper forms came from different shows, they always managed to find an excuse to split up.

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* LetsSplitUpGang: Since Ryan's Trooper form and Kaitlyn/JB's Trooper forms came from different shows, they always managed to find an excuse to split up. Any footage of all three Troopers fighting a monster are either American footage or spliced together from their respective different source materials.



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jeb's usually the wisecracker and comic relief, whenever he's the voice of reason, you know the stakes are seriously high.



** This is also a reason for why he tolerated General Ivar's [[TheStarscream attempt to pull a coup against him]] -- either Ivar would succeed in destroying the VR Troopers for him (before presumably squashing Ivar's effort himself), or else the Troopers destroy Ivar, allowing Grimlord to rebuild him with more loyalty towards him; either way, Grimlord won. (As you'd expect, the latter result happened.)

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** This is also a reason for why he tolerated General Ivar's [[TheStarscream attempt to pull a coup against him]] -- either Ivar would succeed in destroying the VR Troopers for him (before presumably squashing Ivar's effort himself), or else the Troopers destroy Ivar, allowing Grimlord to rebuild him with more loyalty towards him; either way, Grimlord won. (As you'd expect, the latter result happened.) ) He was more than happy to sacrifice Amphibidor, however, as unlike Ivar, he was comparatively useless.
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VRT's suits were a vast departure from those of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and the like: instead of [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman suiting up a human]], the Troopers were actually transformed into robot forms that were created from scratch in virtual reality. If damaged in Trooper form, they had to be repaired as machines before they could return to human form.

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VRT's suits were a vast departure from those of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and the like: instead of [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman suiting up a human]], dressing the heroes in spandex]], the Troopers were actually transformed into robot forms granted armored suits that were created from scratch in virtual reality. reality, as explained in the comic books. If damaged in Trooper form, the trooper suits, they had to be repaired as machines before they could return to human form.
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* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Trooper Transform! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We! Are! V! R!]]" (Actually, the "We are VR!" is unnecessary.) The BigBad also had one: "Forces of darkness, empower me! Take me back to my virtual reality!"
* CallingYourAttacks: Every weapon or tool was activated by saying "[gadget name] command, now!" Even returning to human form was "Retro-form command, now!"
* {{Catchphrase}}: Woody: "What an ideeeeee-a!", Ryan and JB: "See Ya!"

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* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: ByThePowerOfGreyskull:
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"Trooper Transform! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We! Are! V! R!]]" (Actually, the "We are VR!" is unnecessary.) R!]]"
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The BigBad also had one: "Forces of darkness, empower me! Take me back to my virtual reality!"
* CallingYourAttacks: CallingYourAttacks:
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Every weapon or tool was activated by saying "[gadget name] command, now!" now!"
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Even returning to human form was "Retro-form command, now!"
* {{Catchphrase}}: Woody: {{Catchphrase}}:
--> '''Woody:'''
"What an ideeeeee-a!", Ryan ideeeeee-a!"
--> '''Ryan
and JB: JB:''' "See Ya!"



* DarkerAndEdgier: Considered by fans to be much darker and more serious than ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. Some of the story arcs the show had were quite dark, especially when we discover who the villain Dark Heart really is. Then again, ''Metalder'', ''Spielban'' and ''Shaider'' were no comedic romps either.
** Also, the villains were allowed more gruesome deaths than there were on ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', due to the series being syndicated - decapitations, splitting in half, and impalement were not uncommon (the last of these was, in fact, how JB usually dispatched the monsters he fought, even forcing them to surrender and ignoring their surrender and finishing them off anyway, while the Franchise/PowerRangers usually would accept a monster's surrender). There's also the fact that Grimlord is a BadBoss who would make a ''Power Rangers'' BigBad wince in horror with how little he cares about his army, not even showing a tinge of sadness about killing off most of his army (though ''PR'' has had its' own fair share of main villains who don't give a damn about their underlings, like [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Queen Bansheera]]).

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Considered by fans to be much darker and more serious than ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
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Some of the story arcs the show had were quite dark, especially when we discover who the villain Dark Heart really is. Then again, ''Metalder'', ''Spielban'' and ''Shaider'' were no comedic romps either.
** Also, the The villains were allowed more gruesome deaths than there were on ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', due to the series being syndicated - decapitations, splitting in half, and impalement were not uncommon (the last of these was, in fact, how JB usually dispatched the monsters he fought, even forcing them to surrender and ignoring their surrender and finishing them off anyway, while the Franchise/PowerRangers usually would accept a monster's surrender). surrender).
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There's also the fact that Grimlord is a BadBoss who would make a ''Power Rangers'' BigBad wince in horror with how little he cares about his army, not even showing a tinge of sadness about killing off most of his army (though ''PR'' has had its' own fair share of main villains who don't give a damn about their underlings, like [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Queen Bansheera]]).



** Jeb.

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%% (ZCE) ** Jeb.



--->'''Ivar:''' We tried our best, sir.\\

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--->'''Ivar:''' -->'''Ivar:''' We tried our best, sir.\\



--->'''Despera:''' *pointing to battle against the traitorous Knightime* It's not going well, sire.\\

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--->'''Despera:''' -->'''Despera:''' *pointing to battle against the traitorous Knightime* It's not going well, sire.\\



* DeathIsCheap: See MonsterOfTheWeek.
* DecapitatedArmy: It's explicitly stated General Ivar's Ravage Tank is the keystone to all of Grimlord's other tanks, so the Troopers will often take Ivar out of the fight by rolling his tank off a cliff to end the assault.
* DecompositeCharacter: Kaitlin's clone and Red Python were the same person in ''Spielban''. Since Diana Lady and Helen Lady both wore the same armor, the atoner plotline was converted into a power-up for Kaitlin.

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%% (ZCE) * DeathIsCheap: See MonsterOfTheWeek.
* DecapitatedArmy: It's explicitly stated General Ivar's Ravage Tank is the keystone to all of Grimlord's other tanks, so the Troopers will often take Ivar out of the fight by rolling his tank off a cliff to end the assault.
assault.
* DecompositeCharacter: DecompositeCharacter:
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Kaitlin's clone and Red Python were the same person in ''Spielban''. Since Diana Lady and Helen Lady both wore the same armor, the atoner plotline was converted into a power-up for Kaitlin.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Remember Jeremy/Graybot from "The Virtual Spy"? His ''Metalder'' counterpart, Bigwayne, was previously a top warrior in the Neros Empire who retired and became a repair robot because [[VictoryIsBoring he never lost to anyone in battle]], only to come out of retirement to save his protege Gochak (Cannonbot) from being destroyed, and fell in battle against Metalder. Here, Graybot was newly-constructed, and given a human cover identity to infiltrate the Troopers and learn their secrets, and be better than them at everything.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: Remember Jeremy/Graybot from "The Virtual Spy"? Spy". His ''Metalder'' counterpart, Bigwayne, was previously a top warrior in the Neros Empire who retired and became a repair robot because [[VictoryIsBoring he never lost to anyone in battle]], only to come out of retirement to save his protege Gochak (Cannonbot) from being destroyed, and fell in battle against Metalder. Here, Graybot was newly-constructed, and given a human cover identity to infiltrate the Troopers and learn their secrets, and be better than them at everything.

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